Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5278877 Tetrahedron Letters 2005 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Fourteen isomers of bis(formylmethano)C60 were isolated and characterized. A mixture of the bisadducts was obtained by the reaction of C60 with an α-formylsulfonium ylide, and then separated into 15 fractions by preparative HPLC, preparative TLC, and recycling preparative HPLC. Fourteen of the fifteen fractions were found to consist of a single isomer, respectively, which were assigned to the trans-2 (3 diastereo-isomers), trans-3 (3 diastereo-isomers), trans-4 (3 diastereo-isomers), equatorial (2 diastereo-isomers), and cis-2 (3 diastereo-isomers) bisadducts by the comparison of their UV/vis spectra with those of the bisadducts obtained by the Bingel-Hirsch reaction. The 1H and 13C NMR analysis, the transformation of the formyl groups, and the dipole moment calculation clarified the stereochemistry of the substituents on the two cyclopropane bridge-head carbons (in/in, in/out, and out/out).

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